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World Literature Forum suggests you Check Out "The Pendulous Death of Raimundo Manzanero" — “La muerte pendular de Raimundo Manzanero” by 2012 Cuban National Prize for Literature winner Leonardo Padura. Cuban Comrade Raimundo Manzanero, Party leader, former Catholic choirboy and father of four children by three marriages is found hanging from a rafter in an apparant suicide, but without any note of explanation, betraying his Party, his Church and his Family. Padura, author of the Cuban Havana Quartet detective novel series takes you on a journey of discovery to find out why.——Check it Out!——–Robert Sheppard, Editor-in-Chief

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Published on May 06, 2013 10:05

Editor’s Pick: The Sarabande of Sara’s Band | World Literature Today

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World Literature Forum recommends you Check Out Ukrainian writer Larysa Denysenko’s latest offering, "The Sarabande of Sarah’s Band," a hilarious frolic through one of Tolstoy’s "Unhappy Families," uniquely unhappy in its own way. The tale takes you also through the dilemmas of the collision of traditional Orthodox culture and the irresitable pull of Modernity in post-Communist Eastern Europe. Check it Out!—-Robert Sheppard, Editor-in-Chief

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Published on May 06, 2013 09:39

April 28, 2013

Word Springs: Interview with International Author and Educator Robert Sheppard

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Published on April 28, 2013 14:12

Spiritus Mundi, Novel by Robert Sheppard is Now on Goodreads & Shelfari!—Check It Out, Read & Review It Now!

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Published on April 28, 2013 12:47

April 18, 2013

The Magic of Saida by M. G. Vassanji | World Literature Today

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World Literture Forum recommends you Check Out “The Magic of Saida: by M.G. Vassanji tracing the conundrums of cultural and racial hybridity of this African-Indian-Canadian-Ismaili Muslim writer chronicaling the interactions of the Indian community in East Africa, from the Arab slave trade to the Imperial German colony of Tanzania, to independence, to expulsion under Idi Amin and on to refugee life in Britain and North America, accompanied by the yearning of the racially mixed protagonist of this book to return to his African roots embodied in his memories of his African mother and the African childhood sweetheart he left behind, Saida.

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Published on April 18, 2013 11:23

Winter Sun by Shi Zhi | World Literature Today

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Check Out the Poetic Voice of Shi Zhi, a contemporary of Bei Dao prominant during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, who after decades of obscurity in Chinese mental asylums is reemerging on the scene of modern Chinese poetry. In his "Winter Sun" he channels the Buddhist-Romantic sensibility of China’s ancient poetic tradition dating from Tang poets Li Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei through the new modern era via Nietzsche and the surreal, onward into his own unique spiritual landscape.

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Published on April 18, 2013 10:36

Le terroriste noir by Tierno Monénembo | World Literature Today

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Check Out on World Literature Forum Le terroriste noir by African writer Tierno Monénembo, himself a refugee from the dictatorship of Guinea’s Sékou Touré, in which is recounted the untold story of French-Africans’ contributions to the WWII French Resistance against Nazi Occupation.

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Published on April 18, 2013 09:58

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz | World Literature Today

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Check Out on World Literature Forum "This is How You Lose Her," Dominican-American Junot Díaz’s follow-up on his hit novel of Hispanic-American Immigration "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." Funny, brilliantly observed and devastatingly real, he takes you on a narrative and linguistic journey into the borderlands between English and Spanish, and the crossed worlds of modern America and the Latin-American origins of Hispanic immigrants.

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Published on April 18, 2013 09:31

Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin | World Literature Today

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Check Out the allusive, dense and strikingly beautiful intertextual weavings of Contemporary Russian Novelist Mikhail Shishkin in his Post-Modern classic "Maidenhair," or "Venerin Volos" which challenges our assumptions and conceptions about the nature of reality.—From the LinkedIn World Literature Forum Group.

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Published on April 18, 2013 09:12

April 12, 2013

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